Justin Smith was one of the officers commissioned as a Marine Corps officer at Tuskegee University's 2018 Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Spring Commissioning. Gen Brown will retire in June 2018 as Vice Commander, Air Education, and Training Command, which trains more than 293,000 Airmen per year and 62,000 active-duty, Reserve, Guard, civilian and contractor personnel.
The Trump administration opposes a bid to use unclaimed money from a legal settlement over the government's infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to fund a museum honouring victims of the research project. The Justice Department argued in court documents recently that providing the money to the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center would violate an agreement reached in 1975 to settle a class-action lawsuit.
People run from two men dressed in fake police attire during the annual re-enactment of a key event in the civil rights movement in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 5, 2017. Sunday marked the 52nd anniversary of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River in Selma.